Send us your maps
Thank you for your interest in submitting your map to the HDMA. We rely on your contributions to keep our collection growing. We accept submissions via upload, email, and postal mail. Please choose whichever method is most convenient for you.
Our goal is to share the maps you have found or created with the widest audience possible. To this end, we assume you agree with our terms and conditions whenever you submit a map to the HDMA. Our collection is curated from your submissions, therefore maps are not shared instantly on the site. Most submissions will be posted to the site within a few weeks.
With all submissions, please provide any information you would like included with your map such as location, name of contributor and/or creator, date, and description. We think the stories behind the maps are just as interesting as the actual map, so let us know the background story and we'll share it with everyone. We want to properly credit you, so please include as much information as possible.
February 2010 : Arctic Splash
Throughout the calendar year of 2010, we will be featuring a new activity, contest, or giveaway each month.
For February, the HDMA is giving away one hand made Arctic Splash carton. The hand drawn carton, an homage to my current neighborhood in Philadelphia, features a map of the area along with all of the text found on an Arctic Splash Lemon Flavored Ice Tea container. When I first moved here, my friend Jennifer McTague told me about a peculiar feature of my new neighborhood: a proliferation of Arctic Splash containers littering the streets and sidewalks. One winner will be chosen at random from all the submissions received during the month of February.
Upload high quality images in any format using our drop.io fileshare. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction. Send an email to info@handmaps.org with the map information or add comments to your file after you've uploaded it to drop.io/handmaps.
Mail your original paper map to the address below. This is our preferred method as your map will become part of our permanent, physical archive as well.
HDMA
c/o Kristofer Harzinski
2310 East Thompson Street
Philadelphia PA 19125
United States
Note: This is an updated address. No worries, our old address works too!
High quality jpegs of your map can be sent to the address below. We prefer images at least 700 pixels in any one direction, but all submissions are welcome.
Our goal at the HDMA is to share our collection of maps with the widest audience possible. To this end, by submitting work to the HDMA you grant us permission to use your sumbmission as indicated below. You still have the right to use your material in any way you see fit, you are simply allowing us to publish the work here and to share it in other ways such as exhibitions, publicity, and other publications in the future.
When you submit maps or other images or information to the HDMA, you are giving us a perpetual, royalty-free license (that is, "permission") to use, reproduce, publish, and otherwise exercise intellectual property rights (including copyright and rights of publicity) with respect to your submission, including storing it electronically and using or incorporating it in other works and in any media now known or later developed, including without limitation, in published books and public exhibitions. You also agree that we can use your submission at our discretion, including cropping, tinting, or otherwise altering it for our uses, and we can share it with the public through different methods. Finally, since this is a public project, you agree not to hold the HDMA or any of its members or agents responsible for any uses the HDMA or anyone else may make of your submission. If you have any concerns about sharing the information contained in your submission with the public, you should not submit it to the HDMA.
